 | 1826 - 726 pàgines
...chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet begone ! And " — but the booming shots replied, And fast...he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pàgines
...father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 pàgines
...father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " If I may...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pàgines
...father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...gone ! " — And but the booming shots replied, And fust the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pàgines
...abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. " Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " If I may...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pàgines
...father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 4 " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 5 They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pàgines
...knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If 1 may yet be gone !" — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pàgines
...cried, " If 1 may yet be gone !" ' —And but the booming sjiots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; . And look'J from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pàgines
...not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, « If 1 may yet be gone !" — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 424 pàgines
...father! say, If yet my task is done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father!" once again he cried, " If I may yet...he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ! And shouted but once more aloud, "... | |
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And shouted but once more aloud, "My Father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. 
